I have been trying to accomplish this for about 2 weeks. I didnt count my Mature Arborean kills, but I'd say it has to be around 20 per day, figure 4-5 days per week. Of course, these don't show up when you need them.... I finally did get an amber from a Mature Arborean and guess what?? Someone else had killed and left it there.....what luck! Best places I found to hunt were to the North of Orc Hill and by the entrance to BB mtns. Good luck all!

OK.... I've finished this quest 2 times (magicians on two different servers) It did take awhile and maybe 20 Mature Arboreans to get the amber loot.... BUT... I have a new magician on the test server... I've hunted for 6 days and have killed 56 Mature Arboreans and half as many saplings.. and the Amber has not been found yet. This is too much.. I really believe the quest is broken (on the test server anyway.) I really wish I could leave some words of encouragement here.. but.. hummmmm?

OK.. time to edit my post... 76 Mature Arborean and around 40 arborean sapling kills.. 8 days of hunting.. I got the Arborean Amber.. was found on the Mature Arborean.. And btw... made the kill at N660, P1730,, I know the Arborean wander in many places in the woods east and west of Orc Hill.. but this place was kinda out of their normal pathing... (may not mean nothing) OH!, as for words of encouragement...If anything, you may get some good exp while on your quest. I leveled from 10 to 14 looking for the Arborean Amber.. I guess all was not lost.. lol Now, I'm out to find a Pristien Forest Drakling scale... I just want to cry now....

If the quest was broken back then, then it has still not been fixed. Since the last patch I noticed the Mature Arborean spawn rate HAS to have dropped and (when arborean DID spawn after 3hrs....) dropped either bark or nothing at all. Where this site got that arborean amber was a common drop is beyond me considering I've spent about a week on getting this amber for my mage's staff with about 5 rangers and druids helping me track each day(all higher lvls). If this quest is indeed broken then they need to fix it b/c it's bugging a lot of people other than me. Hopefully others who start the quest have better luck than me.

well i have a lev 12 paly trying to do the quest and have a friend lev 15 ranger tracking all the trees in the zone for 3 days now and have killed a lot of them. Well nothing yet from any of them wounder if they nerfed the quest with the last patch or just forget to add the gem back in. well that is my 2 cp if any one had and better luck please post thanks.